Tammi Slovinsky, PhD, MPA (JMU ’98), is a program manager at ICF, a global advisory and technology services provider, where she leads a project focused on developing a resiliency center to respond to the needs of gun violence survivors. She has over 25 years of experience as a practitioner in victim services, including reviewing and revising protocols to enhance victim centered, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive approaches. She has delivered training and technical assistance for a wide variety of audiences including policymakers and professionals working in the criminal legal system, nonprofit, education, and medical fields. She instructs courses that focus on trauma-informed response, gender-based violence, policy analysis, and nonprofit management. She received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in public administration from James Madison University, and a Ph. D. from the Virginia Commonwealth University Public Policy and Administration program, where she conducted qualitative research on the perspectives of prosecutors on campus based sexual assault, secondary trauma, and emotional labor. She is the author of The New Normal: Life After Trauma, Brandylane Publishers, Inc., and peer reviewed articles including "Prosecution as a 'Soul Crushing' Job: Emotional Labor and Secondary Trauma in Working Sexual Assault Cases" and "The Thread of Trauma: A Critical Analysis of the Criminal Legal System," which examines the ways trauma and oppression impacts individuals, communities, and people working within the criminal legal system.